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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Sabana in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.485S, -66.3675WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Sabana in Puerto Rico. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:49:28 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.3675 West, latitude 18.485 North, depth = 121 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 121 km (75 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019327014. Event ids that are associated: pr2019327014. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/19 / 2019-11-23 19:49:28 / November 23, 2019 @ 7:49 pm.

The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fajardo, Sabana Grande, Punta Santiago (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NNW of Sabana, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.3675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNW of Sabana, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-23 19:49:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 01:05:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 134 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019327014 Id of event.
Event Code 2019327014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019327014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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